It’ll be really dumb if this works, but try explicitly turning cellular data off. I’m wondering if the connection bridging could be causing issues

eta: oh, and disable wireguard when you’re on the local network in case you’re not already

Lol, that was maybe a bad example then. I was just looking for a technical term that the general public wouldn’t need to care about, but that all sounds like reasonably important information

That’s like saying he shouldn’t be expected to give advice on Seroconversion kinetics*. You’re right, but it’s also not really the point.

He, like your manager, is responsible for taking the knowledge of the “engineers” and turning that into practical advice and/or legislation for the public.

Which he is not doing… Which has resulted in a body count… Which should at the very least cost him his job…

But if anyone thinks that’s going to happen, they’ve not been paying attention.

*(I don’t know what that is btw, that comes from wikipedia. It’s some technical thing to do with vaccines)

Oh FFS. I thought this was preventing regulations WRITTEN by AI for 10 years. I was about to go on about the GOP actually getting something right for a change, like a broken clock. No matter how low my expectations, they still manage to dispoint.

Where else would you go to wait for all this to blow over?

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The group, […] argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.

Sorry, am I missing something here or is this them saying the quiet part out loud?

I read this as “Investors are annoyed that public backlash prevented UHG from fucking over, and in some cases KILLING their customers, and wanted the company to acknowledge sooner that they wouldn’t be able to fuck over and kill their customers”

Just off the little I know about Fred Durst, I think that’s a pretty generous interpretation, but I also love it, so it’s my head cannon now

The little chipmunks/hamsters/whatever they are are so adorable I want to scream! Cuteness burritos!

Seconded. I’ve got one and I’m pretty happy with it

I eventually bought a kfocus laptop, but the shipping on both was horrendous. I think kfocus worked out ever so slightly cheaper for the laptop itself though.

cries in southern hemisphere

Ha, jokes on you! I’m playing Oblivion, am over encumbered and am hobbling back to a merchant… which is… better?

Just to be clear, I’m not arguing against 3rd party ac entirely, JUST the heavy handed kernel access ac solutions. I believe that if the less insane options were the only ones, the overhead on developers would be present, certainly, but not insurmountable, even for small indie studios.

To slightly exaggerate my earlier example: If you give the gardener access to your security cameras, there’s no reason for them to walk around the back and check if the sprinklers are on. It might be easier, but that does NOT mean your gardener needs access to the security cameras.

The way things are now, developers lean on that insane system as a crutch, and build their games without any regard for client integrity whatsoever. Because why should they? THAT is the laziness I’m complaining about.

there probably should be a middle ground where the layer of security that is now being offloaded to a third party service having kernel-level access should instead be handled by the OS

I don’t believe kernel access should be required at all. 3rd party, OS, whatever! It’s NOT necessary.

Having said that, If you’re arguing for a system service that can verify client integrity and pass that back to user space, sure, I could live with that. In that case though:

you’re at best going to get from Microsoft. Linux being what it is that isn’t an option

I grant you that Microsoft at least acknowledge the problem, but they are dragging their feet on a solution, and they’ve said they’re not going to enforce it, once it becomes an option.

Linux being what is is, and Valve investing what they have, I’d be surprised if something like this wasn’t already in the works

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I’m saying the use of 3rd party anticheat is a crutch that developers use to avoid thinking about cheating in the first place. If they put some proper thought into their architecture, you wouldn’t need such heavy handed anticheat in the first place.

There is nothing inherently more secure about kernel level ac, it just gives you so much access to the underlying system that you can tell if the client is being manipulated.

I’m saying that’s a lazy approach, and you should instead be building your game to be resistant to client manipulation in the first place, rather than asking the user for a stupid level of privilege.

You DON’T need kernel access to achieve that.

Developers that go down this route are substituting good architectural design for god tier access to your machine. Kernel access is the proverbial keys to the kingdom, there is literally nothing they cannot do with it.

It’s like a gardener saying they need access to water, so you give them the alarm codes, a copy of every single door key, the safe code, the wifi password, a silicon mold of your fingerprint, and a urine sample for good measure.

It is WAY beyond overkill, and any developer that claims to need that level of access to prevent cheating is lying. There is NO justification for it. They. Are. Being. LAZY and they are putting you at risk in the process.

there is nothing close to kernel-level anticheat from Windows

Long may this continue. Fuck kernel level anticheat malware, and fuck the developers that use it.

We were discussing the usefulness of receipts, why are we now discussing the maturity of my friends and my ability to set boundaries?

I’m more than happy to pick up whatever my friends would like… because they’re my friends, and so long as I have hands to carry it, it’s not an imposition.

I just expect them to pay for it. Expecting me to foot the bill WOULD be an imposition, and I wouldn’t be ok with that. THAT is my healthy boundary.

Receipts help with this.

There is no one size fits all when it comes to group dynamics like this, and I’ll thank you to not make assumptions about my friends like that.

If I’m only getting a scone and a small black coffee, I’m not paying for your soy mocha latte with almond sprinkles and unicorn hair. “I’ve got next” is a luxury of those not on a budget. All my friends get it, and we all agree you pay for your own. We save rounds for the bar where everyone is drinking the same thing

Also, fwiw, I’ve never even been to America